Figurative Language

A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

Uses LIKE or AS.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron

Q. A comparison of two unlike things that have something in common.

NO like or as.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Q. Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

Q. An over exaggeration.

ex. I jumped so high I touched the sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

A term which features two words which appear to contradict each other but make sense of the situation overall.

Ex. He is such a big baby.

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• personification

• idiom

It is a phrase that bears no literal meaning to the situation.

Example: Once in a blue moon.

Meaning: Rarely happens

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• personification

• idiom

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

It took me a hundred years to finish all of my homework last night.

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• metaphor

What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

The students were as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.

• metaphor

• simile

• oxymoron

• personification

"The city was a jungle" is an example of what?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

hat type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?

The heater yelled as it came on for the first time for the winter.

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• oxymoron